HIP HOP'S FUTURE IS TRASH - 2022 XXL CYPHER..SMH

[@iconic8986]

One thing I like about rap and pop music in general is that it stimulates a feeling inside of me whether it’s excitement, happiness, or even sadness and I think that is the cool thing about music. Watching and listening to those rappers “rap” made feel nothing except regretting listening to them.

[@LoyofLoys]

I feel you. That's why right now HMack can make you feel amazed, hyped, dumb and flabbergasted at the same time. Don't wanna seem too much a fanboy but he the only one innovating in my opinion

[@DioBrandoDaGOAT]

@@LoyofLoys he needs to put out studio albums

[@dDoubleyou]

Lol

[@johnlombardo7816]

🤣🤣😂😂😥😥😪😪😭😭😭😭

[@Dxriz1]

Finally someone that doesn’t like this trash, hip hop fell off real fast

[@scottimusmaximus2032]

Check out Michelleshow if you want to see someone who speaks when they don’t like what they hearing in a song

[@Vzori]

majority of people dont like it lol

[@Drexlyy]

on a mainstream level lol. plenty of good rappers outside of these bums and eminem

[@Arcessitor]

@@Vzori If a majority didn't like it, why does this garbage keep getting big?

[@unkn0wn894]

@@scottimusmaximus2032 that dude does too much i enjoy pettiness as much as the next troll but dudes way into himself

[@Jackd-lz2hn]

They should just make up new genres don't call it hip hop don't call it rap call it crap or something 😂

[@kh7688]

Exactly.

[@Alemiha]

crap trap

[@dingsdongs5474]

CRAP AF lol. that's the complete name of their new genre

[@iconic8986]

One thing I noticed is that each of the rappers (if we can even call them that) flow are so stiff. Nothing changed like tone, the intensity, or the sound. It was so stale and boring from the start to the finish.

[@adamsingh7262]

They are all bad but if i could choose who had the best verse. It was probably the girl.

[@MrSqueasil]

is this cypher a parody? the energy is whack af

[@isifightergaming4191]

you are making fun of parodies.

[@bdr113080]

For real, they look like they didn’t want to be there. They almost have this energy that puts off “ damn I suck”

[@abrahampalmer8761]

Big Time

[@Super1976Man]

Respect you sat through that Stevie. That was GARBAGE !!!!!!!!!

[@abrahampalmer8761]

Big Time

[@liquidationkingla5706]

You know us Old heads are partly to blame for where Hip Hop has gone and is going... I mean I had to admit to myself that in the Past 20 Years I have not purchase a Single Album, DVD, CD, Pay for View event or Streaming Media to let the Record Decisions Makers know what I liked... They are a Fortune 500 Company with Share Holders and they need to put their energy around those Artist that are bringing in consistent Sales... Besides Eminem that does $20 Million in 2021 and averages $30 to $50 Million per Year when he is Touring; have the impact that make Lyrical Rap Relevant? Money Talks, BS Walks...

[@xxSe7en]

Never thought it like that. You are correct.

[@ACarter87]

You couldn’t be more wrong 🤦‍♂️ The problem is streaming and has ALWAYS been steaming This is why tons of bands rallied against Napster They saw this coming When EVERYONE can make music and produce it, it creates an OCEAN of shit Meaning you now have to sift thru the shit to find the gold Nobody wants to do that so they just listen to the dumb shit and keep it moving This isn’t rocket science people Guess who STREAMS EVERYTHING GEN Z’Rs…. Us OLD HEADS don’t fuck with that shit You really think it’s our fault lmao??

[@hybriddavinci]

J cole, Kendrick, drake always sell CRAZY. I'm not sure that's the issue. It's that most labels aim towards the younger generation.. and this is what they want 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@darthlobo1213]

Na Hip Hop is where it's at because young kids stream idiots like 69 and lil zen or what ever his name is! Internet destroyed Hip Hop for the most part! I'll stick to battle rap and underground and throw backs for me dog!

[@LoyofLoys]

I hear you but don't think your info from various algorithms isn't out there. They can find out what peaks your interest real fast. It has just moved from a culture/craft to more a "money grab". Heck look at movies too, all remakes of older hits than trying to develop innovation.

[@tretre_37]

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,... I burst out laughing at Stevie’s face 🤣🤣

[@glittering_insect1059]

Bruh Stevie look at the camera like that 😭

[@rzillabrown5551]

I’m crying laughing

[@-Manda_SKnight_BeastMoD]

Oh no... Just the title...and now Ole Boy's voice ...Most depressing intro ever *had to go watch some Knight Talk to get the taste outta my mouth*

[@Ruhul612]

As soon as I heard “bang” my heart sank. Nobody sounds like they even care about the art.

[@abrahampalmer8761]

Tbh no one cares about the art anymore hip hop in 2020s is running out of ideas at this point

[@Rio-uv1gs]

Its the era where the BEATS do the work..that's why everyone can "rap"...🤣

[@emyf9197]

Even the beat is the exact same I've been hearing in th3 last 10yrs

[@Rio-uv1gs]

@@emyf9197 Everyone is copying and not innovating that's why.

[@Lyrical_Pol]

nardo wick ' bang bang bang Stevie's face looking at the camera was priceless😂😂😂

[@Bellingham42r2]

They should've got UK rappers like Dave, Central Cee or Stormzy. Get them more exposure in the US

[@The10Count]

10 seconds into the video when he stared at the camera with that blank look I knew this gonna be hilarious 🤣🤣 Straight gutter trash

[@hechpee]

2:47 🤣🤣

[@killabysmal]

Real rap mostly lives in the underground and battle rap nowadays

[@patrickobrien9982]

Thanks for the reaction I was in need of a good laugh 😂

[@snellrock33]

this almost brought me to tears, please tell me those where freestyles and not written

[@MikeKox1ong]

Ever since 2016 rappers showing up on XXL Cypher, people starting to sound soft and mumble a lot. This generation starting to suck 🤦‍♂️

[@diablocls55]

2016 was when rap really went to shit

[@isaiahadams1996]

@@diablocls55I say 2014 or 2015 is when it really when it went to shit

[@lcynote]

This is NOT Hip Hop...this is clearly Crap Pop 🤣

[@jasonalexander7968]

I was already not hopeful going in but when I heard "bang bang bang bang" I checked out.

[@MarcelousTV]

It’s official, Coast Contra is definitely leading the pack, no one from this class Is even on the same planet. The future of hip hop really couldn’t be in better hands, if it was only Coast. Too bad, they will be resigned to carry the torch alone while simultaneously, competing with this trash for air time. We also got H. Mack that will no doubt inspire future freestylers, which should in turn bleed over to the mainstream. I really think hip hop will divide into distinct factions and the Genre will do a hard split just like Rock and Metal. People like yourself and other hip hop purist will lead the way. Hopefully diligence and passion is enough to keep lyrical MC’s alive. I pray enough is being done to inspire greatness in the next generation and make the current generation up their pen game. We will see…..

[@lawrencetheone22]

Coast Contra is the worst out of all of them, He can even carry a candle.

[@timwin7155]

@@lawrencetheone22 You must be trippin so hard man.

[@darkStep_7]

This is painstaking. As an old head this literally looks like an SNL skit that we are supposed to laugh at.

[@piscosour628]

Gotta agree with u man. This one is straight up ass

[@RufusShinra]

Big up from Morocco, we've had some pretty fierce rappers rising up through the years since the 90ies, but this new wave shit infected the current generationand all you hear ( mostly ) is shit like this in our local rap scene. This has got to end man.

[@giovonci_e3120]

I miss diversity in young artists. ALL THESE DUDES SOUNDED THE SAME!!! Flow, cadence, style, vocabulary, energy the same

[@nemesisraleng17]

Your reaction to the song the moment it started "bang bang bang ..."😂😂😂😂🤣🤣 Damn Steve I was not ready for that 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂

[@cross1863]

Lupe responded perfectly to these type of rappers on his closer for his latest album Lupe fiasco - ON FAUX NEM it's on the surface level trust me😂😂

[@hebrew26commandmentspower55]

Correction : Mainstream Hip Hop's Future is trash ..... Joe Budden : " Notice they say hip hop dead / cause the dope shit underground " ........ 👑🔥

[@Advaitamanta]

what future bro? if it weren't for the older gen artists. hiphop is already dead, as dead as it can be.

[@MacLaw3084]

not true at all

[@luxotiica4223]

@@MacLaw3084 how its not true? Do you even watch what the standard is for todays hip hop music? How old are ye?

[@elberneto7709]

Nardo Wick starts the cypher: Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang Stevie: 👀 looks to the camera like already?! Me: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@slickgaming810]

Everyone is a rapper today, even when they probably shouldn’t be lol

[@abrahampalmer8761]

Exactly

[@usingwaytoomanynapkins3274]

Quality from 1 artist takes too long to produce. It's easier to have a beat that knocks, then create 20 slight variations of it and give those to 20 different rappers. It all sounds the same, but it still knocks in the ears of the mainstream and they keep buying. Hip hop is beyond the age of the enthusiast . It happens to everything that gets big.

[@joeyc721]

Watching the disappointment in your face build and build is making me laugh so hard! Love you Stevie

[@tammiepeters6511]

Yessss... the look on his face speaks volumes

[@carvermicheal3110]

I really like what you said about the trend that's going on these days I wouldn't mind using it for an outro on my latest album

[@ScottLovenberg]

I just now realized how privileged I've been listening to artists that can write and enunciate, let alone ride a beat and switch flows and cadences. These kids are young, so I'd forgive a lacking pen game or only having a couple of cadences in their toolset, but enunciating their words isn't asking much at all. How you gonna' put emphasis on syllables down the road if you can't even enunciate? How am I supposed to even find out if you develop a pen game if I can't understand a word you're saying. It's 2022 and there's no excuse for sounding this trash with equipment so good and so cheap that rappers were paying hundreds of dollars per hour to get studio time to use not even two decades ago? I've heard dudes using micro cassette recorders playing back tapes of shit they've done that blows this shit out of the water. Oh, and that beat is whack, so I can't even ignore the lyrical content and enjoy the beat. Maybe they should just milli vanilli this shit and work on looking cool while lip syncing.

[@michaelmorgan6674]

Anyone can make it now bro

[@marothimahlake7458]

They’re still here just not mainstream. Atmosphere, Aesop Rock, Qwel etc they’re just not mainstream but hip hop is far from dead

[@Threels2thahead]

You ain’t lyin

[@SeymourlO6]

The second one that went he sounds like Mike Jones

[@MattWebz]

Lmao you ain’t lying

[@taqmobile]

Exactly what I was thinking.. just waiting for "back then hoes didn't want me..."

[@SeymourlO6]

If you would have said his name twice

[@taqmobile]

@@SeymourlO6 facts! Separated by "who?"

[@danielanderson4777]

That was hard to listen to. Everybody saying the same thing over and over. I got money, eating steak and lobster, I got an AR, blah blah blah.

[@dannyharris527]

2pac,biggie,nas,em,jay are just SOME of the greats... and now we have these... Smh 🤦‍♂️

[@rellfacts279]

You didn’t even have to mention them. T.I., Fabolous, Jadakiss, Ludacris, Common, Lupe Fiasco, Talib Kweli. All of them 100 times better than any of these fools.

[@danielson5182]

Stevie this will absolutely be overlooked but THANK YOU. We need more people to call out this mumble bs. It’s such a joke but 10 year olds with Apple Music stream it and fill their pockets Absolutely wild. Literally pathetic. I’m all about people getting their bag but dude… this isn’t rap. This isn’t poetry. This isn’t even music sorry not sorry.

[@Zenith_Nulls]

So many niggas were gassing this shit up and I was just there like...this shit is worse than the previous one 😭 😭

[@bobbydelamar606]

Stevie Knight album dropping soon? 🔥

[@NickMintz]

Coming off of a Lupe Fiasco reaction. This is most definitely not the vibe for me. No bars, no lyrics, they made it so that literally anyone can be a rapper now. But love to see your reaction anyhow. 😄

[@alohi79]

Is there a bleeding ears emoji? I need one now.

[@TrainWreck444]

The XXL "Cypher" has degraded to high school "talent show" levels

[@Fyreballs9]

Stevie, the world is spinning fast enough bruh. I can't get that time back for listening to that video. lol Stil giving you a like for your vid homie but that was torture..

[@doncavatti]

From me. Also- AMP! And lots of us cats on SoundCloud trying to move out of that house.

[@jasonjones281]

Man I couldn’t finish this video!! 😩

[@iampanda6871]

If stevie knight calls your bars cute. You might as well just give back that deal.

[@Shmotivated]

I needed a good laugh today.

[@subparpt]

The lack of energy or care just hurts to see, I feel at some point its become viewed cringey or lame to want to put in effort, not just musically but generally. Fuck that, whatever you're doing should get your maximum effort. Geared more to the first guy obviously, but it seems like a common trend with a lot of things lately.

[@vinsondelrio4401]

Hip-hop music has now graduated to having the Rap Special Olympics for this new generation rappers LOL. These fucking dudes couldn’t out rap a rapper who was on life support while he was blind, had no legs spitting rhymes written down in braille 🤣🤣🤣

[@WhosAr7z]

This is poison for the youth and nothing more. (oh and a check for the record labels).

[@magnity4144]

Well...i have to say that this is a great time for the truly great and admirable rappers to shine like Coast Contra, but sad that we don't really see that many more others doing it

[@Hilariumosis]

You should react to the Thizzler Cypher 2022. It's nasty bro 🔥

[@whatsgood7104]

Ong W

[@RobotNinja01]

I mean its better than this but that thizzler cypher sounds like a bunch of teenagers imitating other rappers. which is fine since I think everyone that does anything artistic usually starts off imitating before they develop their own voice. But if you're going to be participating in cyphers and shit you should have already transitioned into your own, or at the very least be in the mid to late stages where it's recognizable. otherwise it just sounds kinda boring.

[@marcinspace]

I give you props for sitting through this crap.. geez,, these peops need to give the fuk up on what ever they think rap is.. eeessshhh

[@ThugLifeModafocah]

And T-Pain says Tupac would be nothing nowadays... yeah. Look this shit.

[@Dvd2023]

Omg. Lord help us all. That was so hard to watch. I have to go take a shower 🚿 😩

[@sinhimself5]

Sorry Stevie I ain't staying for the rest of this I lost enough brain cells damn it

[@seth181]

Bruh i swear me and stevie always say the same thing at the same time lol, like damn word for word sometimes

[@MasonSkyesGoodToKnow]

LMAO! I actually thought that was a SNL skit!

[@pazpat12]

Can’t believe horse shoe gang or Coast Contra never brace a cover before

[@lenorencepayton6879]

They'll be there next year

[@RiftCutmedia]

Or Antarctica by SuicideBoys if you want bars. They help me recover from trash rap but then Prof helps get my mood back up.

[@RobotNinja01]

Ive never heard anyone suggest Suicideboys for bars.

[@msford82]

This is exactly why I listen to old school Hip Hop and R&B cuz WTF??

[@abrahampalmer8761]

Same at this Im so fed up with hip hop at this point myself

[@msford82]

@@abrahampalmer8761 me too it's NOT the same there's not to many that's actually lyrical today

[@abrahampalmer8761]

@@msford82 exactly even the so called conscious lyrical rappers don't impress me at all and most don't care about hip hop like that everyone is doing for likes and the check theses days I think eventually hip hop is going extinct in the next 10-20 years because is so so so diluted and watered down at this point.

[@msford82]

@@abrahampalmer8761 FACTS everything is so social media driven today these rappers know nothing about selling tapes and CD's out the trunk of their cars,or going to record labels and radio stations hitting the pavement trying to get your music heard

[@abrahampalmer8761]

@@msford82 exactly everyone wants to be so social media famous nowadays without actually real talent and everyone is so pc and super hyper sensitive you cannot tell the truth about rappers and the rap culture as a whole nowadays without someone calling you a boomer or old/bitter etc... Tbh hip hop now is completely dead and extinct at this point there is no returning back hip hop culture is finished

[@jtisdale4983]

Bruuuuhhhh....I thought this was a Key and Peele skit!!!

[@ChrisJones-cn1ew]

Today's sh#t all sounds the same. I never thought I'd be that old man on my lawn but today's music is pushing me that way.

[@alohi79]

This is....... sad. 🤦‍♂️

[@tor3699]

2nd due sounds like Mike Jones "Back then they didn't want me, now I'm hot they all on me"

[@toni-ann5151]

ugh... after 5mins but I know my teenaged nieces find this type 'catchy'. Its Poppy Rap

[@gregjones7196]

...now I have to throw my whole head away.

[@seth4376]

Another great video man! Please check out more lupe fiasco, and also kenny mason

[@tyrod28]

WAIT STEVIE!! You ended the video too quick. The 5th person was about to come out....I think his name is Forrest Gump...

[@meshworkj]

I was laughing the whole time, they all sound like their mouths are frozen from the dentist. Pure hot steaming fucking garbage.

[@brycepeters964]

I think its time for a new falling in reverse reaction to "voices in my head"

[@Bizeecentral]

That girl at the end, she showin’ me somethin :0:00 She gonna go places

[@chrisrome1426]

Believe or not but the other XXL freshman class released this year before this one was even more trash 🗑

[@davidgonzales1812]

You know in the middle of the night like 4am 5am you get waken up by the fire alarm or some alarm and you're all dazed and disoriented and can't think and talk straight? if you tried to rap in that state this is how you would sound.

[@knight3253]

Can we have a REDO!!! on this Cypher?? God dam !

[@clemusjohnson7858]

" I can't get giggy with this sh*t!!"

[@MichaelSmith-bn6hm]

This is exactly why the UK started it's own thing because we was embarrassed by what was happening over there we was like where are all the spitters where are the lyricists sorry we can't do that mumble shit we are the home of Shakespeare 😂😂 that is why Em is king here

[@kukunase1686]

Guys like Eminem Jay z DAX Joyner are real rappers. not these kids

[@MacLaw3084]

@@kukunase1686 eminem is tired and doesn’t make very good music

[@kukunase1686]

@@MacLaw3084 for you maybe

[@Paynedog84]

Nothing against you big dawg I had to leave half way through see you on the next one 🤣

[@pastaissuccess]

1st dood sounded like Great Value 21 Savage performin' at a high school talent show 🤣 I couldn't even wait til the end to comment this smh

[@gabrielanthonydaviddoran5414]

Can we get a Senior Cypher please 🙏

[@s3rv3nt79]

Mainstream hip-hop is garbage today... Check out Bryson Gray, TMR, Topher, and D-Cure

[@carvermicheal3110]

I don't understand why double XL be doing this, there's so many talented artists out there that haven't got much light yet. But anyways I'm not sure if you've heard of Kamauu but if not you should go check him out.

[@Razalghul777]

I imagine a young slim shady being told to hop in the cypher I say young because ain’t no one telling grown ass Eminem what to do and no way he would be on this or lil dicky on this and just diss them with bars these guys can’t even. Catch so they all just stand their bobbing their heads as they’re getting destroyed

[@ralphmilleriii9957]

When I heard the 2nd dude, I said “Mike Jones!!!!”

[@hannibalwolf1]

I'm with you on this one , I agree 💯

[@raydillon]

After that, I feel almost as depressed as they sound.

[@chieftallboy]

Streaming apps killed the game. Everyone thinks they can rap. This is embarrassing

[@spike7531]

They not even nodding their heads on beat smh

[@samisk5841]

Bruh Stevie‘s face at the beginning says it all

[@tomazroses6022]

WTF future of hip hop is in a BIG TROUBLE. 🤘🏻

[@abrahampalmer8761]

Hip Hop is so doomed at this point it cannot be saved at this point

[@tmauntler]

She was the best out of em, but that's not saying much. She was simply better spoken, more on beat than the rest of em and actually had attitude.

[@KrazyC2008]

This is precisely why I only listen to nineties hip hop.. A little late 80's hip hop plus hip hop from the 2 thousands and that's about it. It. And that is all I am going to say!

[@tj54441]

The future of hop hop is fine plenty of great artists it's the future of mainstream hop hop that sucks and it has for a long time

[@J.D.M.R]

how many artists do you think really get paid, most of them take a labels slice, usually the moldy side

[@madmagboy]

What's crazy is that a cypher is different than a freestyle. You're allowed to write for a cypher. And all these people cant write worth a damn

[@bdr113080]

It feels like for about the last 12 years that people just don’t care about being the illest MC on the mic anymore. In the 90s people like Lil Pump and Tekashi69 would’ve never been put on. There is a rappers that can’t rap or rappers that have a rhyme scheme as easy as mother goose. When I look at the current generation, like the last decade, I think 85 or 90% of it is just no talent at all. There are exceptions, and I wish the old heads would acknowledge the rappers that can actually rap from this generation . Kendrick Lamar, Nipsey Hussle, G Perico, Joyner Lucas, Westside Boogie, Da Baby, Benny the Butcher, Westside Gunn , Conway The Machine, Hopsin, The Horseshoe Gang, and J.Cole are the exception but all those artist I just named our less than 3% of this generations artist. And outside of Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole most of them don’t get the respect or play that they deserve. Nipsey didn’t get it until he was killed.

[@dangermouse9348]

5:17 Exactly what I was thinking.

[@NevaG2190]

Do all the new age rappers repeat themselves like this? It's like once they don't know what to say next they just repeat the last line until they figure it out.

[@jasonking971]

This was rough. Is this really what's "hot" right now? I don't think I've ever felt so old then I do right now watching this. Cuz so far the first 3 of these "rappers" have been straight garbage.

[@jasonking971]

Correction.....all 4 sucked. The girl was probably the best. But that's not a compliment.

[@mattymccolgan9453]

Why are they all rapping like they just got out of the dentist from having all their teeth removed. Girl was the only one who could speak actual words.... ummm do you think that's on purpose for gender equality 🤔